| Masdevallia coriacea photo C. Solimbergo |
| taxonomy | described by | Lindley, John |
| published in | Annals and Magazine of Natural History 15 : 257 : 1845 | |
| Family | Orchdaceae | |
| Subfamily | Epidendroideae | |
| Tribe | Epidendreae |
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| Subtribe | Pleurothallidinae | |
| Genus | Masdevallia Ruiz & Pavon 1794 | |
| metabolism | C3 pathway, stomata of the leaves are open during the day. | |
| (K.Silvera, L.S. Santiago, J.C. Cushman, K. Winter - International Symposium on Plant Biology, August 2013) | ||
| it is useful give the soluble mineral nutriens, on the roots. | ||
| native of | origin | cloud forests in Colombia (Boyacà, Guican, Santander), Venezuela, Ecuador (Bolivar, Carchi, Imbabura, Loja), |
| Peru (Cusco) | ||
| altitude | climate informations from Pisac (Calca, Cusco, Peru) | |
| Köppen climate classification : Cfc, humid subtropical climate in all seasons, with short and cool summer | ||
| the weather station data (temperatures are calculated for an altitude of 3300 m / 10900 ft) : | ||
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| photoperiod | in Pisac this orchid bloom with a photoperiod, that varies during the year, from 12 h 53 m' to 11 h 07 m' | |
| life form | epiphyte or litophyte | |
| brightness | partial shade | |
| inflorescence | lenght | 20 cm (8"), from the base of the leafe |
| flores | 1 | |
| size | single flower 3 L 3 cm (1.2 L 1.2") | |
| duration | single flower ≈ 15 days | |
| time | to bloom from birth ≈ 30 days | |
| CITES | appendix | II |
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